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The boar’s head in hand bear I,
Bedeck’d with bays and rosemary;
And I pray you, my masters, be merry,
Quot estis in convivio
Caput Apri defero
Reddens laudes Domino.
The boar’s head, as I understand,
Is the rarest disk in all this land,
Which thus bedeck’d with a gay garland,
Let us servire cantico.
Caput Apri...
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1) Joseph was an old man, and an old man was he,
when he wedded Mary in the land of Galilee.
Joseph and Mary walk’d through an orchard good,
where was cherries and berries so red as any blood.
Joseph and Mary walk’d through an orchard green,
where was berries and cherries as thick as might be seen.
O then bespoke Mary, so meek and so...
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1) There's a church in the valley by the wildwood,
No lovelier spot in the dale;
No place is so dear to my childhood
As the little brown church in the vale.
Ref.: Come to the church in the wildwood,
Oh, come to the church in the vale;
No spot is so dear to my childhood
As the little brown church in the vale.
2) Oh, come to the...
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1) The Church's one foundation
Is Jesus Christ her Lord
She is His new creation
By water and the Word
From heav'n He came and sought her
To be His holy bride
With His own blood He bought her
And for her life He died
2) Elect from every nation
Yet one o'er all the earth
Her charter of salvation
One Lord one faith one...
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1) O spread the tidings 'round
Wherever man is found,
Wherever human hearts and human woes abound;
Let every Christian tongue proclaim the joyful sound:
The Comforter has come!
Ref.: The Comforter has come, the Comforter has come!
The Holy Ghost from heaven, the Father's promise given;
O spread the tidings 'round wherever...
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1) When Jesus Christ was yet a child
He had a garden small and wild,
Wherein He cherished roses fair,
And wove them into garlands there.
2) Now once, as summer time drew nigh,
There came a troop of children by,
And seeing roses on the tree,
With shouts they plucked them merrily.
3) Do you bind roses in your hair?
They cried, in...
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1) The day has dawned, the day of days,
transcending all our joy and praise:
This day our Lord triumphant rose;
this day he captive led our foes.
Alleluia!
2) The serpent’s craft, sin, death, and hell,
this day before the Conqu’ror fell;
all suffering, sorrow, ill, the name
of Jesus risen this day o’ercame.
Alleluia!
3) Now...
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1) The day thou gavest, Lord, has ended,
The darkness falls at Thy behest;
To Thee our morning hymns ascended,
Thy praise shall hallow now our rest.
2) We thank Thee that Thy Church unsleeping,
While earth rolls onward into light,
Through all the world her watch is keeping,
And rests not now by day or night.
3) As o'er each...
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1) The day you gave us, Lord, has ended,
the darkness falls at your request;
to you our morning hymns ascended,
your praise shall sanctify our rest.
2) We thank you that your Church, unsleeping
while earth rolls onward into light,
through all the world her watch is keeping
and never rests by day or night.
3) As over continent and...
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Ref.: Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel
Born is the King of Israel!
1) The First Noel, the Angels did say
Was to certain poor shepherds in fields as they lay
In fields where they lay keeping their sheep
On a cold winter's night that was so deep.
2) They looked up and saw a star
Shining in the East beyond them far
And to the earth it gave...
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